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Waste biorefineries: Enabling circular economies in developing countries
- Source :
- Bioresource Technology. 241:1101-1117
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- This paper aims to examine the potential of waste biorefineries in developing countries as a solution to current waste disposal problems and as facilities to produce fuels, power, heat, and value-added products. The waste in developing countries represents a significant source of biomass, recycled materials, chemicals, energy, and revenue if wisely managed and used as a potential feedstock in various biorefinery technologies such as fermentation, anaerobic digestion (AD), pyrolysis, incineration, and gasification. However, the selection or integration of biorefinery technologies in any developing country should be based on its waste characterization. Waste biorefineries if developed in developing countries could provide energy generation, land savings, new businesses and consequent job creation, savings of landfills costs, GHG emissions reduction, and savings of natural resources of land, soil, and groundwater. The challenges in route to successful implementation of biorefinery concept in the developing countries are also presented using life cycle assessment (LCA) studies.
- Subjects :
- Engineering
Environmental Engineering
020209 energy
Biomass
Bioengineering
Incineration
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Waste Management
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Developing Countries
Waste Management and Disposal
Life-cycle assessment
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Waste management
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
Circular economy
General Medicine
Biorefinery
Refuse Disposal
Waste Disposal Facilities
Cleaner production
Value added
business
Waste disposal
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09608524
- Volume :
- 241
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Bioresource Technology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1e5e630221bf22d4c101817cba2f371b